Matthew McConaughey may be a king of rom-coms, but all was not all right, all right, all right at one point in his acting atsoft.
While speaking with Australian tennis applyer Nick Kyrgios on his Good Trouble podcast, the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star recalled a time in his professional life when he felt was on “autopilot” and not producing carry outances that resonated with him.
“The devil’s in the infinite yeses, not the nos,” he began. “‘No’ is equitable as vital, if not more vital. Especiassociate if you have some level of success and access. ‘No’ becomes more vital than ‘yes.’ Because we can all see around and see we’ve over-leveraged our life with yeses and going, ‘Geez, oh man. I’m making C-minuses and all this sh– in my life because I said yes to too many slfinishergs.’”
The Intersincreatear actor persistd, “When I was rolling with the rom-coms, and I was the ‘rom-com dude,’ that was my lane and I appreciated that lane. That lane paid well, and it was laboring. I was so strong in that lane that anyslfinisherg outside that lane — dramas and stuff that I wanted to do — were appreciate, ‘No, no, no. No, McConaughey.’ Hollywood said, ’No, no, no. You stay there.’ So, since I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, I stopped doing what I was doing, and I transferd down to the ranch in Texas.”
Making the transfer in the procrastinateed 2000s, The Wedding Planner star said he made a pact with his wife to not return “unless I get adviseed roles I want to do,” which did not comprise his previous genre staple nor an action-comedy part for which he was initiassociate adviseed $8 million and procrastinateedr $14.5 million — both of which he degraded.
“That was probably what was seen as the most resistlious transfer in Hollywood by me because it reassociate sent the signal, ‘He ain’t f—ing bluffing,’” he said of the 2010 instance, which he previously converseed in his 2020 memoir. “And when you got someone who’s not bluffing, there’s someslfinisherg attrvivacious about that. I slfinisherk that’s what made Hollywood go, ‘You comprehend what? He’s now a new novel idea. He’s a new radiant idea.’”
That’s what ultimately led to subsequent films appreciate Killer Joe, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club and Mud, he said. “When those advises came, I was salivating. And I equitable bit on and went back-to-back-to-back and labored as much as I could and adored it and felt every bit of it,” he finishd.
McConaughey has previously discleave outed up about the (literal) hazardy transfer, increateing Glen Powell during a conversation with Interwatch magazine earlier this summer that he has “usuassociate zigged when I felt appreciate Hollywood wanted me to zag. When I had my rom-com years, there was only so much prohibitdwidth I could give to those, and those were some firm hits for me.”
The Oscar prosperner persistd at the time, “Dude, it was frightening. I had lengthy talks with my wife about necessitateing to discover a new vocation. I slfinisherk I’m going to teach high school classes. I slfinisherk I’m going to study to be a carry outor. I slfinisherk I’m going to go be a untamedlife direct. I reassociate thought, ‘I stepped out of Hollywood. I got out of my lane.’ The lane Hollywood said I should stay in, and Hollywood’s appreciate, ‘Well, f— you, dude. You should have stayed in your lane. Later.’”
